Does corruption increase or decrease employment in firms?

Arlette Beltrán

doi:10.1080/13504851.2015.1076137

Does corruption increase or decrease employment in firms?

Arlette Beltrán

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Abstract

We use representative data for firms for Latin American firms and show that corruption decreases employment in firms. This result is robust to changes in specification and also consistent with the use of an instrumental variables approach. Corruption appears to negatively impact the growth and wealth in a country, not by introducing labour distortion in firms, but by keeping them small.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	361-364
Number of pages	4
Journal	Applied Economics Letters
Volume	23
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/13504851.2015.1076137
State	Published - 23 Mar 2016

Keywords

Corruption
Latin America
bribes
employment

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